Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as coeval.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Coeval.

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  • adjective obsolete coeval; of the same age

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Examples

  • But not from itself, since it is contrary to reason and nature, that any being should limit its own perfection; nor yet from something else, since then it should not have been the first, as supposing some other thing coevous to it; which is against the present supposition.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • Sublunary exhalations, and Cometa, which are heavenly bodies, coevous with the Stars; the cause of the inequality of whose motion, is their Apoge and Feriges.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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